Ajax is probably the most useful web technology today. Ajax, is a web development technique that enables a browser to retrieve data and load it onto a page without refreshing the browser window.

The data handling that happens on the backend in Ajax, is done with XML, every browser parses XML differently so application Developer must include a great deal of browser-specific rules to ensure compatibility. As one would imagine, the resulting code can get quite bulky.

There is a solution to this problem, and it’s called Fjax (Flash+Ajax). Fjax works a whole lot like Ajax — it uses an XML file to pass data to a browser — except that it uses a tiny bit of Flash, instead of the browser, to parse the XML. All of that browser-specific code is eliminated, leaving the application more lightweight and putting less of a strain on the browser.

Fjax uses the Flash Player to load a 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent SWF to simply get XML from the server. Once it has the XML, it parses it into HTML and then lets JavaScript know it’s ready. JavaScript then gets the HTML from Flash and DHTMLs it into the web page — it uses JavaScript to write (X)HTML/CSS onto the page.

You can see live Fjax examples on http://www.fjax.net

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I am using all these techniques on this website and my search engine rankings have drastically improved. There is nothing extreme in this tutorial, All these techniques are easy to implement and highly effective.
Permalinks
By default, WordPress gives out ugly post URLs that read like database entries. For example, a typical WordPress post URL would be something like this:
http://www.freakitude.com/?p=n (where n is the post number)
Wordpress has an inbuilt feature called permalinks to output clean urls. Permalinks will use the Apache server’s mod_rewrite module to put clean URLs like http://www.freakitude.com/year/month/day/post_name .
You can activate permalinks by visiting options available in your wordpress backend or dashboard.
Google Sitemaps
Here i am not talking about general sitemaps. I am talking about XML sitemaps, its a Protocol that allows you to inform search engines about URLs on your websites that are available for crawling. a Sitemap that uses the Sitemap Protocol is an XML file that contain links to all your posts and pages that you want the search engine to crawl and include in its database.
You can use Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress to generate sitemaps for you wordpress blog. Then you have to verify your website and submit your sitemaps to google. You can do that through https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps.

Use Technorati Tags
Technorati tags is a cool way to get traffic from technorati, tagjag and other similar websites. There are many plugins available for technorati tagging. Some plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior are too complicated for novice users, i prefer using a plugin called Simple Tags. It allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can download simple tags plugin from here.

Feed Submissions
By default, WordPress comes with various feeds. Many people use various online and offline feed readers to automatically look for new content. Also many blog tracking websites use these feeds to get latest content from websites.
You can submit your website’s RSS feed to various Feed Directories. List of all famous feed directories and links to their submission pages can be found here and here

Links from Other Websites
The search engine page rank of your website is decided by the number of incoming links from other quality websites. You can ask your friends to link to your website from their websites. Or you can use reciprocal links . You can use various SEO forums to search for people intersted in Link Exchange.

If you think your website is based on a very unique topic and there is a wiki running on that topic, you can try including your link in the External Links section of that wiki.
Note: Don’t spam wikipedia entries. Wikipedia users and editors are smart enough and only quality links are there to stay.

Blog Directories
Submit your blog to various blog directories. This is an easy way to get backlinks. You can search for Blog directories on google.

Content is the King
You may have heard this line many times before, so keep blogging. Blog about the things that you are passionate about.

Enjoy !!

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Wave to MIDI Conversion
Wave files can be converted to MIDI but there are some limitations. Only one instrument can be selected in the MIDI file and WAV to MIDI files can not contain any voices as in the case of WAV to MMF.

For converting wave files to MMF you can use some tools like Akoff Composer, Mobile music polyphonic, Intelliscore polyphonic etc.

According to my experience converting general wave files into MIDI is useless because the detection is very bad. But if you want a song to be converted to ringtone you can do one thing. Buy a good Mic and record the main theme of the song in your voice. Then convert your voice into instrumental tone using these softwares.These software’s do well in converting human voices or piano tones into midi.

WAV/MP3 to Samsung MMF format (Used in Samsung C100 and other phones)
Converting wave files to MMF format is very difficult work. The sound quality of the wave get distorted and sound becomes very scratchy. Phones don’t support wav format as ringtones because wave files have very big size and phones only have limited memory.Nokia 7650 is among fewer phones which support Wav as ringtones.

Wav to MMF Conversion can be done in following ways:-

One thing you need to realize is that due the limited phone memory, you can only make little less than 20 seconds length of mp3 ringtone & you could store up to 3, maybe 4 converted mmf ringtones.

To do this, you need 2 software’s.

1. Sound forge 5.0 or 6.0 (I got this at Kazaa. I hope you have fast internet connection to download b/c it’s little big)
2. yahama converter program; exact name of this file is WSC-MA2-SMAF-u.zip. (you can find this at yamaha website. Go to smaf) .Yamaha Software only supports 8000 bit Mono Wav files.

After you’ve got the software’s, open them.

Open the sound forge software.

1. Go to File>Open. Select the mp3 or wav file you like to convert.
2. Due to the size of the file, you need know that the maximum size to convert is 19~20 sec. The phone cannot contain the whole song. After it opens, you need to click & drag (like highlighting the sentence in word processor) the segment that you want to convert. Remember maximum you can convert is less than 19~20 second.
3. Press play button to see if it plays only the dragged segment. If I were you, I would play with this software little bit. It’s not too difficult to use.
4. After you have click & drag the segment, go to Edit> Copy.
5. Then Go to File>New. It will open up a new file window. Then Go to Edit> paste.
6. New Go to File>Properties. Then click on the Format tab.
7. Leave everything as it is except for the Channels which switch it to Mono.
-So Sample rate= 44,100/// Bit-depth= 16 bitt//// Channels = mono.
8. After you click OK, it will ask you ¡Stereo to Mono . Click Mix Channels and click OK.
9. Now go to Process>Resample .
10. As it opens the Resample window, go to Preset> Resample to 8000 Hz with anti-alias filter. Leave everything as it is. Click OK.
11. You have just created mp3 to wav file, but the sound quality has not been badly affected even though it’s down to 8000 Hz and the file size has been tremendously decreased.
12. Go to File> Save as and Save this wav file you have just created. Don’t forget where you save this file.
13. Now open the yamaha converter tool. It will say drag wav file into here. Find the wav file you have just created. Click and drag into the yamaha program. DON’T FORGET TO click 8 kh to 4 kh. This will definitely affect the sound quality of the file, but you have no choice to do this b/c phone can’t be downloaded big size of file. Now, it will create the *.mmf file. (I think it also creates *.sfx , but you don’t need this). All you have to do now is use GPRS program to download the file.

Several things to know. The max file size you can download to phone is 39~40 kb. I believe 20 seconds of mp3 file is about 39~40 kb. Also phone does have limited size of memory so you could only put few converted mmf file in your phone.

If you don’t have Sound Forge then you can do one thing. You can use windows sound reorder to do the task for you.

If you want to convert wav file to MMF, just open WAV file in windows Sound Recorder. If you need to convert MP3 then play MP3 file in player like winamp and run sound recorder on the other side. Then record the sound from MP3 and save it as wave file. Now you can convert this wav into MMF through following procedure.

Open Wave file in Sound Recorder
Go to file/Properties/Convert Now and reduce the sound quality to 8000 bit Mono and click OK.Then save the wave file.

Then follow Step 13 written above to convert this wave file into MMF using yamaha converter.

Making Composer Code Ringtones (Used in 3310, 3210, 2100 etc.)
In this tutorial I will teach you how convert your desired midi, mmf, wav, mp3 into composer format.
All the formats will be covered step by step. You will also need little software for conversion.

MIDI 2 Composer Code
The softwares you will need are :-

1. Nokring - Nokia Ringtone Composer for Windows 95& 98 ( http://www.drksm.com/sms/ringtone/nokring_full.zip )
2. Nokia RTTL to Nokia 3210 Converter Version 1.5 (http://www.drksm.com/sms/ringtone/RTTTLconvert.zip)
3. Midi to Tone 2.1 (http://www.drksm.com/sms/ringtone/midi2tone.zip)

First download any MIDI ringtone.

1. Open the downloaded MIDI file with Midi 2 Tone Converter.
2. Play the tone to the desired length and click stop .
3. Then goto note view ,select the octave and third click\listen to listen to the tone.
4. Save the tone if you like it.

Tone can be saved in 6110 and nokring(RTTL) format.
Now you can also convert RTTL to simple keypress or composer code format.
You can edit the ringtone with RTTL

To convert RTTL to composer code Format

1. Copy the RTTL code from the text file .

2. Click convert,Check the “Show as Keypress” checkbox to convert to keypress format.
3. Then save or compose the tone on your mobile.

If you want to convert this tone into other tone formats for Siemens, Samsung, Motorla, Panasonic etc. Goto Online Converter here (http://www.handphones.info/ringtone-converter)

Wav MP3 to Composer Code
To convert WAV/MP3 to Composer Code. You have to first convert them to MIDI. There are various Wav2Midi tools. To convert MP3 you first also need to convert MP3 to Wav.This can be done by using windows sound recorder. First play your desired MP3 song and record it using sound recorder. Then save it as a wav file.
For converting wave files to MIDI you can use some tools like
Akoff Composer ( http://www.akoff.com )
Mobile Music Polyphonic ( http://www.ringtone4me.com )
Intelliscore Polyphonic ( http://www.intelliscore.net )

Wave files can be converted to MIDI but there are some limitations. Only one instrument can be selected in the MIDI file. Most of the MIDI files have many instruments playing at one time. But WAV 2 MIDI can convert the song into one instrument playing. For example if you want to convert a song into Midi. It can be converted into a single instrument playing. Normally it can be converted into piano etc. So its very hard for these software’s to detect many instruments and then change them into one instrument. The sound gets distorted and the tone is not so good.

1. But one thing can be done.If you have a good microphone,you first sing the theme of your song.For example if i want james bond Tomorrow Never Dies tone.I first sing the theme that is something like”dundooh-doohdun,dundundun,dundooh-doohdun,dundundun”
2. And then i converted it to MIDI.The results are really good.Download James Bond Tune (http://geocities.com/mobileinfoline/james.mid )to see yourself.
3. Then i converted the MIDI file to composer code.ITS THAT SIMPLE…

MMF to Composer Code
To convert MMF 2 Composer.You need to convert MMF to MIDI then MIDI to Composer Code.

1. First open the MIDI file with PsmPlay ( PsmPlay Download Link 1, Download Link 2)
2. Then select a single instrument from the list by pressing Si.If the midi is a single instrument midi.Then goto step 5 directly.For example some files only have piano playing with no other instrument playing.

3. Then hear to the sound.If you don,t like select other instrument.The sound is divided into many instruments.Try others like piano,drums etc.
4. When you find the main instrument.Which you want to be converted to the Composer Code.
5. Goto File\Create MIDI .
6. Then convert the MIDI into Composer Code using the method given at the top of the page.

Note: I wrote this tutorial long time back and i am just reposting it here. So some website links may be broken. I will try to revise dead links as soon as possible . Until then You can use google to find various software listed in this tutorial.

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Writely, Google’s online word processor service which was previously under invite mode, is finally open for registrations and it will soon be moved to Google Accounts for sign in.
You can signup for free Writely account here.

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These are some oukut hacks that i compiled from various sources. I tried some of these and they work. If you want to share some more hacks, please feel free to comment on this post.

The hacks 1 to 5 are sourced from programmersworld.net.

1. Changing Orkut Background

If you use firefox you can change the orkut backgroung by using the greasemonkey firefox extension. First install greasemonkey from here and then install Bluekut hack from here

2. Orkut Cute
Orkut cute is a program that let you send scraps to all your friends in orkut. It also alerts you when you receive new scraps send notifications when forums are updated. Orkut cute can be downloaded here.

3. Sorkut Firefox Extension
This is a toolbar to search for the threads with specific words in the title. Just give the commumity id of the community you want to search, enter the search term and click Search.

Sorkut can be downloaded from here.

4. Scraboy
This is a freeware program that let you browse orkut and know when you or your friends receive new scraps. You can add emoticons, colour and formatting to your scraps with ease. Sending scraps from your desktop is also as easy as writing an instant message. Scrapboy can be downloaded from here.

5. Orkut Scrap Helper
This is a cool firefox extension that let you scrap faster by providing messaging options in your own scrapbook page. It also reduces the number of steps to scrap someone who has scrapped you to just one!. Scrap helper can be downloaded from here.

6. Scrapbook Flooding
An Indian dude named Rahul created this Firefox extension for Orkut scrapbook flooding. The extension is compatible with Firefox1.5+ and can be downloaded from here.

7. Javascript Hacks
There are some Javascript hacks for Orkut. Like, for flooding scrapbook, Increasing number of fans, testimonial flooding, Invisible names, blank scraps, etc. Some of them do work.
A good compilation can be found here. Try at your own risk.

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Mig33 is a cool J2ME cellphone chatting application. Refer to
my post about Mig33 for more details.
Mxit is a Jabber based J2ME chatting application for your cellphone.

This post is about using Mig33 and Mxit through your PC. Also it will guide you to run some other J2ME applications on pc using J2ME emulator.

Here are the steps to use Mig33 on your PC.

1. You need the Java Runtime. Get it from here

2. Because these applications are specifically coded for J2ME platform so you
need J2ME emulator for your pc. You can download mpowerplayer J2ME emulator here. Download the latest stable release of the mpowerplayer SDK and unpack the contents of the zip file.

3. Now you need Mig33  jar file to run in the player. You can get Mig33 jar file from here .Click this link and save the mig33.jar somewhere in your pc.

4. From the unzipped mpowerplayer package. Open the file player.jar to start the mpowerplayer player.

Then click File>>Open and load the mig33.jar file.

Done. Enjoy !!

Using Mxit on PC:

You can also use mpowerplayer to run mxit on pc. The details can be found at ITweek blog

Mxit is a jabber based chat client so another way to chat with your mxit contacts through pc is by using your jabber  account.

• Download a free jabber client.
• Install the client and start it up.
• Using your Jabber client, try to log in with your preferred username on one of the many free Jabber servers (see list) or just use your Gmail account.
• Log in using your jabber account.
• Then add your mxit contacts as their_number@mxit.co.za to chat with them .

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